The accompanying graphical display appeared in USA Today (February 19, 2010). It is meant to be a pie chart, but an oval rather than a circle is used to represent the whole pie. Do you think this graph does a good job of conveying the proportion falling into each of the three response categories? Explain why or why not.

USA TODAY Snapshots®

By Anne R. Carey and Suzy Parker, USA TODAY Source: AMN Healthcare’s 2010 Survey of Registered Nurses What nurses say about nursing care today Improved Declined Remained the same Since they entered the profession, care has:

26%

55%

19%